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Barangaroo to be one of the world’s first climate positive city
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Barangaroo will be a world leading ecological development, with the NSW Government announcing the project will enter the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Climate Positive Development Program.
Sydney’s new city waterfront precinct will join just 16 other developments around the world which are working with the Clinton Climate Initiative to be Climate Positive.
Barangaroo will be one of the first CBD districts in the world to be carbon neutral, water positive and generate zero waste.
The inclusion of Barangaroo in the Climate Positive Development Program demonstrates the NSW Government’s continued commitment to fighting climate change.
Barangaroo will have a positive ecological and social footprint, by:
- Being water positive, producing more water than it uses;
- Being carbon neutral, generating more renewable energy than it uses; and
- Generating zero waste, with potential to clean up more waste than it generates.
The climate positive announcement builds on the Government’s July 2009 signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Clinton Climate Initiative.
This partnership will address climate change, focusing on ways to accelerate deployment of low emission technologies in government-owned buildings.
That same partnership will also see the NSW Government and the Clinton Climate Initiative working together to identify opportunities for commercial-scale solar projects.
Chairman of the Clinton Climate Initiative, Ira Magaziner, welcomed the news.
“I congratulate Barangaroo on its vision and approach in creating a property development that will minimize its environmental impact,” Mr Magaziner said.
“By participating in the Climate Positive Program, Barangaroo will help to set new standards in urban development and hopefully inspire other developments across Sydney and the world to follow.”
Launched in May 2009 by the Clinton Climate Initiative, a program of the William J. Clinton Foundation, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, “Climate Positive” supports the development of large-scale urban projects striving to reduce the amount of on-site CO2 emissions to below zero.